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What organizers call the largest free Fourth of July celebration on the West Coast won’t be held Friday, one of several Los Angeles County Independence Day events postponed or canceled because of federal enforcement action against illegal immigration.

Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Summer Block Party, which last year included 800 drones flying above The Music Center, has been postponed until an unspecified day later in the summer.

Robert Gonzalez, Gloria Molina Grand Park director, expressed disappointment over the postponement but explained in a statement, “the safety of our guests, artists, staff and volunteers will always be our number-one priority.”

South Gate canceled Thursday’s Fourth of July Festival, which was to include a fireworks show. Cudahy’s fireworks show and Huntington Park’s drone show scheduled for Thursday have also been postponed.

Several shows have joined the trend of switching from fireworks to drones including the long-running show at the Rose Bowl where a drone show will be part of the three-day Foodieland food festival.

Instead of its traditional fireworks show at Palisades High School, a drone show will be held Friday at Paul Revere Middle School, “intended for persons that were residents of Pacific Palisades and immediately adjacent streets on Jan. 7, 2025, and their designated family and friends,” organizers said.

The event is not open to the general public because “the area residents impacted by the fire outnumber the capacity of the venue,” organizers said, citing the date the Palisades Fire began.

Burbank’s annual Independence Day celebration has been shifted to McCambridge Park from the Starlight Bowl, which remains closed due to damages from January’s windstorm. The celebration from 5 to 9 p.m. will also feature a drone show.

Fireworks shows include the 20-minute display at Councilman Bob Blumenfield’s July 4th Extravaganza at Warner Center Park. The event will run from 6 to 9 p.m. and also include a performance by Strange Days, billed by organizers as “a worldwide touring Doors concert experience.”

Another 20-minute fireworks show will be held in Marina del Rey. It will begin at 9 p.m., synchronized to music played over loudspeakers at Burton Chace Park and Fisherman’s Village.

The Fourth of July celebration at the LA Galaxy Sports Complex in Torrance will include a fireworks show set to begin a approximately 8:45 p.m.

The fireworks show will be preceded by live music.

Attendees are advised to bring blankets or round-bottom chairs. Straight-legged chairs are prohibited.

The maximum capacity enforced by the Torrance fire marshal. No tickets required, but compliance with facility rules is mandatory.

The West Parking Lot of the Torrance Courthouse has also been designated as a viewing area.

Fireworks will follow the Dodgers-Houston Astros game at Dodger Stadium; the Major League Soccer game between the Galaxy and Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Dignity Health Sports Park; the Earth, Wind & Fire concert at the Hollywood Bowl; and the “Kaboom!” motocross, tuff trucks and monster show at Fairplex.

Fireworks shows are also scheduled at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Fireworks displays are also planned for 9 p.m. at:

— Artesia Park, 18750 Clarkdale Ave.;

— Cerritos High School, 12500 E. 183rd St.;

— Rowley Park, 13220 S. Van Ness Ave., Gardena;

— Crescenta Valley High School, 2900 Community Ave., La Crescenta;

— La Bonita Park, 1440 W. Whittier Blvd., La Habra;

— Marie Kerr Park, 39700 30th Street West, Palmdale;

— Shepherd of the Hills Church, 19700 Rinaldi St., Porter Ranch;

— Rosemead Park, 4343 Encinita Ave.;

— Valencia Town Center, 24201 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita;

— Dr. Richard Roux Memorial Park, 26233 Faulkner Drive, Stevenson Ranch;

— Walnut High School, 400 Pierre Road;

— Westlake Village Golf Course, 4812 Lakeview Canyon;

— Friendly Hills Country Club, 8500 S. Villaverde Drive, Whittier; and

— York Field, 9110 Santa Fe Springs Road, Whittier.

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  1. THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
    HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
    You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
    Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
    GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
    These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION,  FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE !  IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT  FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
    My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
    It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
    That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
    Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING  A  FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE  ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.

    Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?

    Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.

    In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.

    There’s  $75 million in a offshore bank account
    There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday

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